nervous disorder

/ˌnʌrvəs dɪˌsɔrdər/

Other forms: nervous disorders

Definitions of nervous disorder

1. noun

   a disorder of the nervous system
   synonyms: neurological disease, neurological disorder

   types:

   brain damage

   injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.

   brain disease, brain disorder, encephalopathy

   any disorder or disease of the brain

   ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia

   inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait

   atopognosia, atopognosis

   absence or loss of topognosia; inability to locate correctly a point of touch

   dyskinesia

   abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements

   chorea

   any of several degenerative nervous disorders characterized by spasmodic movements of the body and limbs

   flaccid paralysis

   weakness or loss of muscle tone resulting from injury or disease of the nerves innervating the muscles

   ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

   thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs

   athetosis

   a continuous succession of slow, writhing, involuntary movements of the hands and feet and other body parts

   kuru

   a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned

   nerve compression

   harmful pressure on a nerve (especially in nerves that pass over rigid prominences); causes nerve damage and muscle weakness

   epilepsy

   a disorder of the central nervous system characterized by loss of consciousness and convulsions

   apraxia

   inability to make purposeful movements

   Friedreich's ataxia, herediatry spinal ataxia

   sclerosis of the posterior and lateral columns of the spinal cord; characterized by muscular weakness and abnormal gait; occurs in children

   hereditary cerebellar ataxia

   nervous disorder of late childhood and early adulthood; characterized by ataxic gait and hesitating or explosive speech and nystagmus

   tardive dyskinesia

   involuntary rolling of the tongue and twitching of the face or trunk or limbs; often occurs in patients with Parkinsonism who are treated with phenothiazine

   Parkinson's, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's syndrome, Parkinsonism, paralysis agitans, shaking palsy

   a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system characterized by tremor and impaired muscular coordination

   cerebral palsy, spastic paralysis

   a loss or deficiency of motor control with involuntary spasms caused by permanent brain damage present at birth

   orthochorea

   a form of chorea in which spasms occur mainly when the patient is erect

   Saint Vitus dance, St. Vitus dance, Sydenham's chorea

   chorea occurring chiefly in children and associated with rheumatic fever

   tarantism

   a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider

   agraphia, anorthography, logagraphia

   a loss of the ability to write or to express thoughts in writing because of a brain lesion

   acataphasia

   a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner

   aphasia

   inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion

   agnosia

   inability to recognize objects by use of the senses

   CJD, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease

   rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control

   nerve entrapment

   repeated and long-term nerve compression (usually in nerves near joints that are subject to inflammation or swelling)

   Huntington's chorea, Huntington's disease

   hereditary disease; develops in adulthood and ends in dementia

   Reye's syndrome

   acquired encephalopathy following acute viral infections (especially influenza or chicken pox) in young children; characterized by fever, vomiting, disorientation, coma, and fatty infiltration of the liver

   Wernicke's encephalopathy

   inflammatory degenerative disease of the brain caused by thiamine deficiency that is usually associated with alcoholism

   type of:

   disorder, upset

   a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning